While RapidShare undoubtedly remains the leader of file-hosting services out there, quite a few new services appear which are calling for intensified competition and will probably take a prominent spot at the top. Below are 5 services worth checking.

Ivan Seidenberg, the Verizon CEO, said they would cope with the 5%-10% of users that appear to be abusers who chew up all the bandwidth. However, the “net neutrality” thing comes as an obstacle to do so.

BitTorrent networks have revolutionized the experience of watching TV for lots of their users. Now they go further, welcoming an exclusive BitTorrent release named “Pioneer One”. That is a sci-fi series, planned to premiere on BitTorrent networks and get the most massive audience right away.

A new research aiming to compare over 10,000,000 BitTorrent users’ download speeds revealed that those using uTorrent have got considerably better speeds than users of Vuze. The difference equals to 30% on some ISPs and is considered to be attributed to various designs.

Today UK’s DEB (Digital Economy Bill) entered House of Commons for the second reading, with no scrutiny or debates as the opposition had hoped. The second reading, by the way, can be the last one. The Bill, if passed, might literally be able to choke legitimate websites, public access Wi-Fi and innocent broadband users.

Now there’re not very sweet times for torrent websites, as they keep drawing the short straw in the lawsuits brought by copyright owners. Maybe that’s why the team of the Tribler BitTorrent client keeps developing a decentralized ecosystem for BitTorrent network.

IFPI (The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) criticizes the results of the recent report made by French researchers from the University of Rennes, indicating a 3% increase of copyright violation since the country’s “three-strikes” law passing last September.

Loads of political programmings has been going on like a recent one that’s Three Strikes programs and now these authentic exclusives of politics are in demand for more than ever for more collective control over the processes of parliament.